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Friday, 5 February 2010
Writing and the Cosmic Shopping Mall
Writing and the Cosmic Shopping Mall
by Emily Hanlon Writing from the creative unconscious is like walking into a cosmic shopping mall where each shop offers a different persona for us to try on, actually a different way of being in relationship to ourselves and the world. The only means of exchange in this cosmic mall is exuberance, fearlessness and a desire to share and be shared. Oh, and there’s a key to the mall, too. We all have it in our pocket when we arrive, even if we don’t know it’s there. The key is a desire to break out of the box of who we think we are, who our families think we should be. It is a desire to fly in a place that, as John O’Donohue says, “is full of the most melodious and nourishing and wild freedom. And everyone should go there, to the wild place, where there are no cages, where there are no tight rooms without windows and without doors, everyone should go to the free clearance places in their own hearts.”
And so, with our keys, we enter the mall. There, in every window we see amazing costumes. Here there is a multi-colored cloak of the finest silks, feathers and gemstones. The price: a desire to shine. Here there is a hat that reaches the clouds and is made of glittering stars and moons floating in what seems to be space itself. The price: a desire to expand consciousness. There are shops with nothing but wings: dragon wings, fairy wings, butterfly wings, lace wings, velvet wings, silk wings in all colors known and unknown. The price: a desire to fly. The shops go on and on, for they are as cosmic as our creative potential. And what is even more amazing, is that just the perfect shops show themselves to you as you walk by.
I believe each time we return to this cosmic shopping mall, we find different shops… shops beyond persona, shops of beauty, depth and mystery that we weren’t ready to see when we first arrived. Our eyes and our hearts were not open enough. We were not ready to allow our spirits such freedom of expression and flight. But amazingly, as time passes and we integrate these new parts of self into who we are, we see that there was no shopping mall at all. That we never had to pick or choose – all that magnificence was inside us all along!
As creative women and men, we are at home in such mystery; we carry those rhythms, colors and songs inside ourselves. Once this becomes part of our consciousness, we are on a path from which there is no looking back.
© Copyright 2009 Emily Hanlon. All Rights Reserved.
Posted by angel-healing
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Monday, 25 January 2010
Moon Times Jan Newsletter
Mood:
 happy
Topic: archive newsletters
| Subject: News from Moon Times; News and SALE!! Products …. Please forward this newsletter to any friends, family or colleagues who may be interested! | | www.moontimes.co.uk | | Hi Ladies,
This is a short newsletter just to highlight our Sale Items and let you know that Rachael gave birth to Dorothy Grace on 11th Jan (10 days late!) she was a healthy 8lbs 13oz- 4kg! We are slowly getting back in to the swing of things and managing to process orders within 7 days of them coming through. We are also phasing out the velcro fastening pads- replacing them with the press stud fasteners…we do have some velcro ones still in stock…if you specifically want some send us an email and we will let you know what we have left. Sale Items Earth Pathways Diary 2010. Spiral-bound. 21cms x 15 cms
£10.99 or 2 for £20
http://www.moontimes.co.uk/shop/onsale/earth-pathways-diary-2010/ Moon Cycle Calendars Moon Phases for 2010- UK edition
http://www.moontimes.co.uk/shop/onsale/mooncalendars/ plus teas, smudge sticks, some pads…check out the Sale Section http://www.moontimes.co.uk/shop/category/onsale/ I am finishing with a quote from The Pill book and a poem by Pam Chubbuck….
Take care, much love
The Moon Times Team xxx | | The Pill Book http://www.moontimes.co.uk/shop/books/the-pill/ “In Native American tradition there’s a beautiful saying that at her first period a girl meets her wisdom. Through her menstruating years she practices her wisdom, and at menopause she becomes her wisdom.” From The Pill: Are You Sure It’s for You? By Alexandra Pope and Jane Bennett, published by Allen and Unwin Blood time by Pam Chubbuck Finally ...
Squatting ...
Hovering over the moss ...
I watch my blood
Slowly drip onto the earth ...
Drip
Drop
A glob of red ...
I watch as I have never watched before...
My blood.
I breathe ...
Smell the smell of it ...
Fresh ...
Alive ...
Different than on a pad, old and brown...
Or held within me ...
Plugged up
Inside
Never to be seen
Felt
Acknowledged
Flowed
Celebrated
Or allowed to be my teacher ...
I see the inner juices of my body
There on the living moss ...
Soft
Green
Spongy, as I step
Or sit or lie upon it ...
Like the inner
Uterine tissue lining - bed
Which creates
The possibility
Of Spirit ...
To take hold
And turn to flesh.
Blood
Trickles slowly down my inner thigh ...
I watch ...
Time stands still
Marked only by
Drops of crimson as they hit the earth ...
I enter dream-time ...
The altered state of
Blood-time ...
This blood ...
My blood ...
Speaks to me ...
Come into me
And dance the dance of life
It beacons ...
You are Dancer Woman
Powerful ...
Fresh ...
Feathered Hawk Woman ...
Bleeding Time Woman ...
I have mysteries
To tell ...
And power to unfold ...
Listen with your heart ...
Your blood pump of life ...
As it moves
The saline mother of all fluid ...
Blood of passion ...
Through your womanly body ...
Come into me ...
My blood calls ...
I hold all things ...
Known and unknown ...
Come!
See, feel, taste, smell ...
Rejoice in!
The secrets of your woman blood ... Pam Chubbuck is the author of Passages Into Womanhood: Empowering Girls to Love Themselves; What My Mother Never Told Me About Bleeding and Other Essential Stuff: Poems to Amuse, Enlighten, and Empower Women; and an audio book; Woman Spirit, a menarche myth, as well as several other books and articles. Passages Into Womanhood
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Posted by angel-healing
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Updated: Monday, 25 January 2010 11:15 AM GMT
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
announcing the birth of Dorothy Grace
Mood:
happy
Topic: Positive News!!
 Dorothy Grace Hertogs was born at 11.11pm on jan 11th 2010 weighing 8lbs 13oz!
Posted by angel-healing
at 1:23 PM GMT
Updated: Monday, 18 January 2010 1:29 PM GMT
Monday, 11 January 2010
The Soul Loves Intimately
Mood:
 a-ok
Topic: Musings
| The Soul Loves Intimately | | | The soul loves intimately, but the self is shrouded in fear. The soul knows that all things are facets of an infinitely faceted divine singularity; that each face you meet is, in fact, a unique expression of God.
The self insists otherwise, mistaking each facet of God as a being separate from God and everything else, and envisioning a scarcity-driven, zero-sum world of competing selves forever condemned to a fearful and anxious existence.
It isn't the soul that needs to hear the message of love, but the self. It isn't heaven that needs to be transformed by love, but earth. |
"Why Angels Have Wings"
Rami Shapiro |
Posted by angel-healing
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Thursday, 7 January 2010
Shine Your New Spirituality Light
Mood:
 bright
Topic: Musings
You are the light of the world. Do you not know this?
Everyone is, when they choose to be. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bushel. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
In the same way, let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and praise the beliefs which have sponsored them.
By this means you can help others span the chasm between yesterday and tomorrow, and close the gap between the comfort of tradition and the necessity of innovation. For the world must now invent itself anew. Yet honor the past as you envision the future. Do not completely reject old beliefs, nor require anyone else to. Enlarge upon them, alter them where alteration seems appropriate, and invite others to do the same. Let your New Spirituality be not the rejection, but the fulfillment, of all that your old religious laws and your ancient prophets have promised you. And when others ask what you are doing, say: Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. The New Revelations Neale Donald Walsch
Posted by angel-healing
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Friday, 1 January 2010
Happy New Year
Every day is a New Beginning. A new cycle begins this day, yet a new cycle begins every day. Indeed, every moment. So if you recognize anything on this day, recognize what it symbolizes: The miracle of the endlessly continuing Cycle of Life. What a grand day! What a time for celebration! We begin again today! We turn the page! And so, let go of all that you do not wish to carry with you any further. Any fear, any sadness, any anger, any resentment, any disappointment, any lament...let it all go. And now, using the specialness of this day as a springboard, let's get on with Life!
Posted by angel-healing
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Monday, 28 December 2009
VOTE for your Fav GREEN WEBSITES!
Please vote for this fab website....along with other great ones in different categories! Love Rachael xxxxx Message from http://myzerowaste.com Our zero waste website, which has been our passion for the past 18 months has been shortlisted for the Green Web Awards. We have been nominated for the 'Green Living Advice sites" category.
We are up against two other companies - one being the Guardian newspaper with its several MILLION visitors per month! and the other against a great company called You Gen.
So far we are third - not just third, but embarrassingly lagging behind third!
Voting ends on Thursday, so if you can spare me 5 seconds, please click on the link below, scroll down until you find the 'Best green living advice" category and vote for My Zero Waste:
http://www.nigelsecostore.com/green-web-awards/vote/
We'd be so grateful; I know you are all busy people - you don't need to write back and say you've done it,. JUST DO IT! and maybe pass on our plea to your friends too.
Thank you and have a wonderful new year
Rae x
"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing."
Oriah Mountain Dreamer.
http://myzerowaste.com
Posted by angel-healing
at 11:32 AM GMT
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Joy and Sadness
Mood:
a-ok
Topic: Musings
| Joy and Sadness | | | Joy is life, expressing. The free flow of life energy is what you call joy. The essence of life is Oneness -- unity with All That Is.
This is what life is: unity, expressing.
The feeling of unity is the feeling that you call love. Therefore, in your language, it is said that the essence of life is love.
Joy, then, is love, expressing freely. Whenever the free and unlimited expression of life and love -- that is, the experience of unity and oneness with all things and with every sentient being -- is prohibited or limited by any circumstance or condition, the soul, which is joy itself, is not fully expressed.
Joy not fully expressed is the feeling that you call sadness.
Friendship With God
Neale Donald Walsch
Page 264 | | |
Posted by angel-healing
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Friday, 25 December 2009
Is There a Santa Claus?
| Yes, Virginia . . . | | | We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of THE SUN.
"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.
"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, VIRGINIA, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, VIRGINIA, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. |
Is There a Santa Claus?
Editorial in The (New York) Sun
Written by Francis P. Church
September 20, 1897 |
Posted by angel-healing
at 1:55 PM GMT
Happy Christmas
The reason so much of humanity commemorates this day is that so much of humanity seeks to give and receive love. During this holy time, know that all times are holy, that every religion holds truth, that each tradition is sacred, and that it is in the simple sharing of love that we make our beliefs come alive, and our dreams come true. Let this Christmas Day remind us that Christ came to invite us to offer love to all humankind, and to open the door of God's kingdom to every soul. Merry Christmas, everyone.
Posted by angel-healing
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